Premiering tomorrow night at 8 p.m., the film will follow the designer’s career, tracking it through the time where he left his position as creative director for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, and then consecutively his rise to the top.

“It was pretty gruelling; I was doing 16 collections a year and shuttling back and forth between [the two fashion houses] and thought ‘I’m not going to come back to this unless I can come back the way I want to,” he said.